Disability Visibility
First-person Stories From the Twenty-first Century
Disability Pride Month
2 users like thisJuly is Disability Pride Month, originating in the United States after the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act on July 26th 1990. It has since expanded into a global movement that recognizes those who face barriers every day due to a variety of conditions. The Disability Pride flag was first designed by Ann Magill and has recently been refined by the Disabled Community to be more visually accommodating. Each element of the flag represents something different: The Black Field: A color of mourning and rage; for those who are victims of Ableist violence, and also rebellion and protest. The Five Colors: The variety of needs and experiences (Invisible and undiagnosed disabilities, physical disabilities, neurodivergence, psychiatric disabilities, sensory disabilities). The Parallel Stripes: Solidarity within the Disability Community and all its differences. The Diagonal Band: “Cutting across” barriers that separate disabled people; creativity and light cutting through the darkness. The books listed here (both nonfiction and fiction) reflect just some of the many disabled experiences and or call for greater disability justice and are amazing resources to help better understand those facing everyday challenges.
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Care Work
Dreaming Disability Justice
Crip Kinship
the Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid
Demystifying Disability
What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be An Ally
Being Heumann
An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
Sitting Pretty
the View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
What Doesn't Kill You
a Life With Chronic Illness-lessons From a Body in Revolt
Vagina Problems
Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics
Deaf Utopia
a Memoir--and a Love Letter to a Way of Life
Natural Killer
a Memoir
Haben
the Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
Run Towards the Danger
Confrontations With a Body of Memory
Easy Beauty
a Memoir
Smile
the Story of a Face
Every Day Is a Gift
a Memoir
My Own Blood
a Memoir of Madness and Special-needs Parenting
Disfigured
on Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
The Circus Train
a Novel
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